we need to do big things and needed to have done big things. the fact the president won't agree with bigger things, maybe some blame is on us as republicans for not being flexible enough. but the fact is that the country needs to do these things. since we're not going to get a big thing done, the thing to do is do a small thing and try to get the country behind doing the big thing. >> the gang of six. do you have any agreement that was something that republicans could live with and do you think democrat woz have lived witness as well? >> i think some. my distaste is that it's better than nothing. it's far better than anything we've got there now. it's -- it in fact recognizes the we have to reform the tax code. there are some revenue increases in it. but the biggest problem why we're having trouble is because we zront a big friendly climate in this country that would stimulate all new jobs, last owe years have come from new business. new businesses have created and we're stifling that in terms of what we've done to credit market and regulations